We are waiting for our saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transfigure these wretched bodies of ours into copies of his glorious body. He will do that by the same power with which he can subdue the whole universe.

Short Responsory

Come to us and save us, Lord God almighty.

– Come to us and save us, Lord God almighty.

Let your face smile on us and we shall be safe.

– Come to us and save us, Lord God almighty.

Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.

– Come to us and save us, Lord God almighty.

Canticle

Magnificat

My soul rejoices in the Lord

O stock of Jesse, you stand as a signal for the nations; kings fall silent before you whom the peoples acclaim. O come to deliver us, and do not delay.

My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord,

and my spirit rejoices in God, my salvation.

For he has shown me such favour –

me, his lowly handmaiden.

Now all generations will call me blessed,

because the mighty one has done great things for me.

His name is holy,

his mercy lasts for generation after generation

for those who revere him.

He has put forth his strength:

he has scattered the proud and conceited,

torn princes from their thrones;

but lifted up the lowly.

He has filled the hungry with good things;

the rich he has sent away empty.

He has come to the help of his servant Israel,

he has remembered his mercy as he promised to our fathers,

to Abraham and his children for ever.

Glory be to the Father and to the Son

and to the Holy Spirit,

as it was in the beginning,

is now, and ever shall be,

world without end.

Amen.

O stock of Jesse, you stand as a signal for the nations; kings fall silent before you whom the peoples acclaim. O come to deliver us, and do not delay.

Prayers and intercessions

The Lord who is to come is the Judge of the living and the dead.

– Christ, have mercy.

We thank you for the mercy you have shown us:

let your compassion support us in our weakness.

– Christ, have mercy.

You humbled yourself to wash away our guilt:

forgive us the times when we have been indifferent to your pardon.

– Christ, have mercy.

Grant us also a spirit of understanding

to forgive as we ourselves are forgiven.

– Christ, have mercy.

If you should mark the guilt of those who have died,

Lord, who would survive?

– Christ, have mercy.

Our Father, who art in heaven,

hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come.

Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread,

and forgive us our trespasses,

as we forgive those who trespass against us,

and lead us not into temptation,

but deliver us from evil.

Deepen our faith, Lord God,

as we celebrate the great mystery of the incarnation

by which you revealed to the world the splendour of your glory

through the Virgin Mary

when she gave birth to your Son,

who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

one God, for ever and ever.

Amen.

The Lord bless us, and keep us from all evil, and bring us to everlasting life.

Amen.

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